Analysis Of Nurse Response Times Across Shifts

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Analysis of Nurse Response Times Across Shifts: January 1 – 15, 2013 Analyze the average nursing shift response times for the first 15 days in January 2013 as presented in the report. Discuss the performance, consistency, and deviations for the night, evening, and day shifts. Propose potential factors contributing to the observed trends and suggest measures for improving the response times in each shift. Also, evaluate the significance of deviations across shifts and how these might impact patient care. Provide recommendations for further improvements. Word Count Requirement: 750 – 1000 words. February 24, 2013 Director of Nursing , The purpose of this report is to present the average response time for the nurses on each shift for each of the first 15 days in January of this year . At the end of this report you will find a graphic displaying the desired information in the form of three overlapping line graphs. All information used to generate the graphic was obtained through use of the automated Responder 5 system. The night shift not only recorded the fastest response time average, but was also the most consistent in their performance . Contributing to this is the smaller number of visitors in the hospital, as well as the number of patients that are asleep at the time. As you can see, their average response time was always less than two minutes. There is one significant deviation from the average value for the evening shift, and two significant deviations for the day shift. It would be preferable to reduce or eliminate these as much as possible, but they are not unacceptable. One trend that may be interesting is that the deviations in one shift did not
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